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...orange in the visitors’ dugout. “Maybe we needed to be on edge like we were every weekend,” Walsh said, “knowing that if you drop two of four, if you split, you’re going to the bottom.” New-look Harvard, which promises to win games with speed, pitching and defense, will definitely be on edge this time around, as it tries to survive the Rolfe climb back to the top of the Ancient Eight heap...
Picked to threaten Princeton for the division title last season, the Big Red instead sank to the bottom of the standings with a 6-14 mark in Ivy play. The same youthful core that sank a year ago now looks to swim with junior Brian Kaufman in the lifeguard role. Kaufman had nine home runs and 11 steals...
...conclude the year was a similarly-themed 4-4 record, but an improved Ivy League meant a sympathetic NCAA selection committee, and for the Crimson, its first NCAA tournament birth in a decade.But the 2007 season has taken an entirely different route. Through four contests, Harvard sits at the bottom of the conference standings, the only Ivy League team without a win. And in stark contrast with an ’06 squad captained by a defensemen and a defense-minded midfielder, this year’s Crimson has struggled mightily to find leadership in its own zone...
...certain looks," he writes in his recent book. (Its title, Project of Hope, recalls the autobiographical musings of another mold-breaking presidential candidate on the other side of the Atlantic.) "I've always been able to detect condescension, that movement of the eyes that goes from top to bottom...
...Drexler has one. He has rebranded J. Crew as a store that sells basics like tank tops and Capris but also dares to inch up the food chain of craftsmanship (think cashmere sweaters), avoiding the race to the bottom by refusing to woo price-conscious consumers and sell ever cheaper clothes made with ever cheaper labor--a trend driven by discounters like Wal-Mart and Kohl's that has rippled to specialty shops. He has also taken away the fashion-by-engineering ethic that made J. Crew predictably boring...